The nerve of some people!

@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

13 Sep 19

Yes, I've noticed that many are not programmed to leave a message.

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@DaddyEvil (137142)

• United States

14 Sep 19

@akalinus I'm confused. Why would leaving a message be illegal? (I can guarantee it isn't illegal anywhere in the US.)

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (40440)

• United States

14 Sep 19

@DaddyEvil I think it is illegal for robocallers to leave messages. I could be wrong about that, but a lot of these calls hang up when they are answered by a message device.

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CarolDM

@CarolDM (203452)

• Nashville, Tennessee

13 Sep 19

So tired of those calls, I never answer mine.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

13 Sep 19

Have you seen JJ's video where he sits there smoking a cig and messing with someone telling him he owes the IRS (or something like that) money? It's pretty funny.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

@myklj999 Gracias.

CarolDM

@CarolDM (203452)

• Nashville, Tennessee

13 Sep 19

@TheHorse No I missed that one I guess.

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Michelle

@infatuatedbby (95001)

• United States

15 Sep 19

I don't pick up strange numbers.

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Michelle

@infatuatedbby (95001)

• United States

15 Sep 19

@TheHorse Oh darn! :(

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Sep 19

@infatuatedbby But sometimes my friends don't leave me messages. They think they can Facebook me. I check Facebook once a week.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Sep 19

My "caller id" is not working right now. Not sure why.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (95225)

• Marion, Ohio

13 Sep 19

I usually just hang up on those. I have fun with the live callers

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (95225)

• Marion, Ohio

15 Sep 19

@TheHorse My favorite has been from one wanting to help me ease my pain. I tell them it is in my A**

Most just continue reading from the script or hang up. But one guy after a long pause played along. If he hadnt been trying to scam people I could have liked him.

@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Sep 19

What kinds of things do you say to them? Depending on my mood I "mess" with them, or am sympathetic toward them, and wish them well.

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Deborah-Diane

@DeborahDiane (40056)

• Laguna Woods, California

13 Sep 19

Lately, I have been getting a lot of auto-dialed calls in Chinese or Korean. I'm not sure which. However, I do not feel a bit guilty about hanging up and blocking the number. I don't know how I ended up on that list, but they are certainly wasting their time!

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

13 Sep 19

That's hilarious. I haven't had that happen yet. Do you live near an Asian neighborhood?

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Sep 19

@DeborahDiane Interesting! So someone did a demographic analysis and targeted your community. I'm surprised I haven't received any calls in one of the Indian languages.

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Deborah-Diane

@DeborahDiane (40056)

• Laguna Woods, California

14 Sep 19

@TheHorse - Our retirement community is very multi-cultural. The largest group is Caucasian, but we also have large groups of Koreans and Chinese, as well as other ethnic groups. I suppose that is why I get the calls, but they seem like strange robocalls. I can't even tell them, "Hey, I don't speak this language!" LOL

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Simone

@Janet357 (75656)

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13 Sep 19

some people have been bugging me on the phone selling stocks or what. hahhah

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

13 Sep 19

No market risk!

BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (45498)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

13 Sep 19

I hang up on robocalls but with the guy trying to clean my ducks, when he asks how I am, I say I am fine and thank him for asking before I hang up.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (45498)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

14 Sep 19

@TheHorse Ducts! I meant ducts!

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

23 Sep 19

@BarBaraPrz Oh, those! I just put duck tape on them and call them good.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

I have NO dirty ducks.

maximax8

@maximax8 (31053)

• United Kingdom

13 Sep 19

Some people would just say "fine, thank you". Your reply was a bit too challenging for them hey. I keep getting a recorded message about a transaction that has been stopped.

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maximax8

@maximax8 (31053)

• United Kingdom

14 Sep 19

@TheHorse I am going to cancel that account because I don't believe the transaction exists. Yes, you don't have student loans yet they offer you help to pay them off!

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

13 Sep 19

Heh. What kind of transaction was it? Did they tell you what they wanted you to do? I get a lot of offers to help pay my student loans (which I don't have).

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Sep 19

@maximax8 If you're getting jive monkey calls, texts, or emails, it's time to say "goodbye."

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divalounger

@divalounger (5849)

• United States

13 Sep 19

I never pick up the landline anymore for this very reason--but your story made me laugh!

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

I wish I'd gotten a live person so I could have described my hemorrhoids in some detail. I don't actually have them, but I do have a decent imagination.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458230)

• Switzerland

13 Sep 19

I got some "Hi, *name*, how are you?" I know who have my number so I usually reply back "wrong number" and I hang up.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458230)

• Switzerland

14 Sep 19

@TheHorse No, because the idiots called from German Swiss and they used a German name (Heidi).

Anna is the most common Italian name, someone with a little brain would have used Anna.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

@LadyDuck This gave me my first morning chuckle. Thank you. I love it when Indians call me and tell me their name is Fred or Amy.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

Sounds like a good idea. Did they get your name right? That would be a TINY bit scary.

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@DaddyEvil (137142)

• United States

14 Sep 19

No, I don't get those. I've set my phone to ignore calls from any numbers that aren't already in my phone's directory. (Friends who get new phone numbers know they have to text me before they can call me. Them texting me lets me put their new number into the directory.) Maybe she was a sensitive interactive bot and you grossed her out, pony... *grinning at you*

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

Well, they say that the AI people are programming "emotional intelligence" into bots.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

24 Sep 19

@DaddyEvil Thanks, DE.

Nanette Piotrowski

@nanette64 (20364)

• Fairfield, Texas

13 Sep 19

Yes I do @TheHorse . Unfortunately about 15 times per day.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

Have you been courting those Hot Asian Brides?

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

@nanette64 Dang it. My Hot Asian Bride and my Hot Russian Bride are arguing over who gets my computer Next. And the both want my credit card again.

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Nanette Piotrowski

@nanette64 (20364)

• Fairfield, Texas

14 Sep 19

@TheHorse Oh hell no.

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Thelma

@thelme55 (76476)

• Germany

24 Sep 19

You are very funny. I have to remind it myself what you answered. I might use it when someone calls me whom I don't know of. Great idea

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

26 Sep 19

Will you hang up after the bot responds, "That's great!"? Or mess with it for awhile?.

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Thelma

@thelme55 (76476)

• Germany

27 Sep 19

@TheHorse I will mess with it for a while to have fun.

Clint Perry

@cperry2 (5608)

• Newport, Oregon

23 Sep 19

Not very often anymore. I am on the national do not call list, and I complain every time someone calls anyway. But better still is that I only have a cell phone and if I do not recognize the calling number I do not answer it, I press ignore and go about my day. If it is something important, they will leave a message, which I will check in a few minutes to see if they did.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

23 Sep 19

I'm on a netional do-not-call list as well. But it doesn't seem to work.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

23 Sep 19

@cperry2 Ah, so that's how they do it.

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Clint Perry

@cperry2 (5608)

• Newport, Oregon

23 Sep 19

@TheHorse That is why I quit answering any number I do not recognize. The call list used to work fairly well, but there are ways now to fake the calling from number and that makes them nearly impossible to stop.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157555)

• United States

14 Sep 19

I get some convincing ones from time to time, but mostly I do not answer them.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

I got one that had me going for a minute a few months ago.

RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (73472)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

14 Sep 19

I have it easy to avoid this. My flip top phone has only a handful of phone numbers that I have saved. Whenever the phone rings I flip it open and if I don't know the number or it does not give me the name of one of the numbers I saved I just don't answer it.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

I mostly use my land line.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325815)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 Sep 19

They make me mad because you can't be rude to them!

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

Heh. What's weird is that they don't really exist. They're bots. Someone made a recording months ago, with some poorly designed algorithms, and they stumbled on your number. It's a non-event.

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Lena Kovadlo

@lovebuglena (43080)

• Staten Island, New York

14 Sep 19

Usually when you get an automated person on the phone it ends with for ____ press 1 or something like that. I never remember getting a "How are you doing?".

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 Sep 19

Heh. This one started with "How are you doing?"

Hanni Harel

@Hannihar (129481)

• Israel

15 Sep 19

@TheHorse I love how you got rid of her.

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@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

23 Sep 19

At least she didn't say "That's great!"

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Hanni Harel

@Hannihar (129481)

• Israel

24 Sep 19

@TheHorse If she did you know she was not paying any attention to what you said to her and just wanted to give you her spiel.

Jim Bauer

@porwest (78761)

• United States

14 Sep 19

I get them all the time, and they are SOOO obvious. I wonder how many people actually think they are talking to a person? lol BTW, sorry to hear about your hemorrhoids.

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